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Vernon and Irene Castle's Ragtime Revolution by Eve Golden 9780813124599
RRP: $56.70Booksplease Price: $54.92Vernon and Irene Castle popularized ragtime dancing in the years just before World War I and made dancing a respectable pastime in America. The whisper-thin, elegant Castles were trendsetters in many... -
Children of Heracles: Hippolytus, Andromache, Hecuba by Euripides
RRP: $52.40Booksplease Price: $41.90Four plays by ancient Greece's third great tragedian.One of antiquity's greatest poets, Euripides has been prized in every age for the pathos, terror, and intellectual probing of his dramatic... -
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare 9781909621893
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.00Initially described as a comedy, Shakespeare's explorations of prejudice, duty and the nature of justice make The Merchant of Venice a far darker, more alluring play.Part of the Macmillan Collector's... -
The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare 9781909621961
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $15.18Controversial and sexually charged, The Taming of the Shrew is possibly Shakespeare's first play, and certainly among the most performed. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of... -
Anna Held and the Birth of Ziegfeld's Broadway by Eve Golden
Booksplease Price: $77.41" Anna Held (1870?-1918), a petite woman with an hourglass figure, was America's most popular musical comedy star during the two decades preceding World War I. In the colorful world of New York... -
Anna Held and the Birth of Ziegfeld's Broadway by Eve Golden 9780813180755
RRP: $37.80Booksplease Price: $36.20Anna Held (1870?-1918), a petite woman with an hourglass figure, was America's most popular musical comedy star during the two decades preceding World War I. In the colorful world of New York theater... -
Othello: The Moor of Venice by William Shakespeare
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.00An intense drama of love, deception, jealousy and destruction, Othello is arguably Shakespeare's most topical and accessible tragedy.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning,... -
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare 9781909621855
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $15.73Set in a city torn apart by feuds and gang warfare, Romeo and Juliet is a dazzling combination of passion and hatred, bawdy comedy and high tragedy.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series... -
Jayne Mansfield: The Girl Couldn't Help It by Eve Golden
RRP: $67.20Booksplease Price: $54.43The first definitive biography of tragicomic sex symbol Jayne Mansfield, one of the most colorful and eccentric movie stars of the 1950s-60s. The book examines both her life and her career, detailing... -
A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare 9781909621879 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $10.42Gorgeous, strange and magical, A Midsummer Night's Dream is perhaps the best-loved of Shakespeare's plays. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized... -
Macbeth by William Shakespeare 9781909621886
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.00Dark and violent, Macbeth is also the most theatrically spectacular of Shakespeare's tragedies. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with... -
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare 9781909621909
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $14.68Shakespeare's gentle melancholy, enlivened by a comic sub-plot of considerable accomplishment, has long made Twelfth Night a favourite with Shakespearian audiences.Part of the Macmillan Collector's... -
King Lear by William Shakespeare 9781909621923
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.00In Shakespeare's thrilling and hugely influential tragedy, ageing King Lear makes a capricious decision to divide his realm between his three daughters according to the love they express for him... -
A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare 9781909621879
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $14.72Gorgeous, strange and magical, A Midsummer Night's Dream is perhaps the best-loved of Shakespeare's plays. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized... -
How Theatre Educates: Convergences and Counterpoints with Artists, Scholars, and Advocates by Kathleen Gallagher 9780802085566
RRP: $71.40Booksplease Price: $60.82Canada boasts a remarkable number of talented theatre artists, scholars, and educators. How Theatre Educates brings together essays and other contributions from members of these diverse communities... -
Hamlet: Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.18Shakespeare's combination of violence, introspection, dark humour and rich language in Hamlet is intoxicating. It remains the world's most widely studied and performed play, and is a cornerstone of... -
Corporatism, Social Control, and Cultural Domination in Education: From the Radical Right to Globalization: The Selected Works of Joel Spring Joel Spring (Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, USA) 9781138108356
RRP: $100.78Booksplease Price: $90.47Starting with the 1972 publication of his seminal work, Education and the Rise of the Corporate State, Joel Spring has been documenting and analyzing the politics of knowledge and education... -
The Tempest by William Shakespeare 9781509889761
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $15.06The Tempest is Shakespeare's masterpiece of magical effects, redemptive romance, poetry and politics. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized... -
Architecting Cloud Native Applications: Design high-performing and cost-effective applications for the cloud by Kamal Arora 9781838643317
Booksplease Price: $84.40Apply cloud native patterns and practices to deliver responsive, resilient, elastic, and message-driven systems with confidence Key Features Discover best practices for applying cloud native patterns... -
Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare 9781509889778
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $14.72Comedy and tragedy intertwine when two very different couples fall in and out of love in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning,... -
The Ecology and Evolution of Inducible Defenses by Ralph Tollrian
RRP: $199.50Booksplease Price: $157.08Inducible defenses--those often dramatic phenotypic shifts in prey activated by biological agents ranging from predators to pathogens--are widespread in the natural world. Yet research on the... -
Ideological, Cultural, and Linguistic Roots of Educational Reforms to Address the Ecological Crisis: The Selected Works of C.A. (Chet) Bowers C. A. Bowers 9781032570051
RRP: $94.48Booksplease Price: $85.13In this volume C.A. (Chet) Bowers, whose pioneering work on education and environmental and sustainability issues is widely recognized and respected around the world, brings together a carefully... -
The Greatest Star: Behind the Scenes of Sunset Boulevard – THE OFFICIAL 75th ANNIVERSARY COLLECTOR'S EDITION Including the Original Shooting Script Jeffrey Vance 9798886743326
RRP: $83.98Booksplease Price: $57.541950 was a seminal year for filmmaking: All About Eve, Born Yesterday, Father of the Bride, and more. But one movie stands above the rest: Sunset Boulevard, Billy Wilder's searing look at-and... -
The Overflowing of Friendship: Love between Men and the Creation of the American Republic by Richard Godbeer 9780801891205
Booksplease Price: $80.81When eighteenth-century American men described "with a swelling of the heart" their friendships with other men, addressing them as "lovely boy" and "dearly beloved," celebrating the "ardent... -
The Mammoth Book of Folk Horror: Evil Lives On in the Land! by Stephen Jones
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $28.25Welcome to a landscape of ancient evil . . . with stories by masters of horror Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, H. P. Lovecraft, M. R. James , Ramsey Campbell, Storm Constantine, Christopher... -
New Men: Manliness in Early America by Thomas A. Foster 9780814727812
RRP: $62.98Booksplease Price: $54.22In 1782, J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur wrote, "What then, is the American, this new man? He is an American, who, leaving behind him all his ancient prejudices and manners, receives new ones from... -
New Men: Manliness in Early America by Thomas A. Foster 9780814727805
Booksplease Price: $190.83In 1782, J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur wrote, "What then, is the American, this new man? He is an American, who, leaving behind him all his ancient prejudices and manners, receives new ones from... -
The Overflowing of Friendship: Love between Men and the Creation of the American Republic by Richard Godbeer
Booksplease Price: $61.05When eighteenth-century American men described "with a swelling of the heart" their friendships with other men, addressing them as "lovely boy" and "dearly beloved," celebrating the "ardent... -
The Way of the Worm Ramsey Campbell 9781787585683
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $29.93"With The Way of the Worm, Campbell's cosmic trilogy comes to a triumphant conclusion." - S.T. Joshi Book 3 in the Three Births of Daoloth trilogy. The present day, or something very like it... -
The Way of the Worm by Ramsey Campbell 9781787585676
RRP: $20.90Booksplease Price: $15.50"With The Way of the Worm, Campbell's cosmic trilogy comes to a triumphant conclusion." - S.T. Joshi Book 3 in the Three Births of Daoloth trilogy. The present day, or something very like it...